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cliff to deal with this fiscal cliff. again, a total lack of courage, lack of leadership. >> senator corker, does congress realize how ridiculous this looks to the american public, dueling pros conferences. we're minutes away from a fiscal cliff and no one in washington is taking it seriously. >> i think most understand. i think you both know i laid out a very detailed bit. i shared wit the white house, with speaker boehner, with leaders at every level. 've put forth an entitlement package. the problem is we don't want to deal with the issues. yes, i understand that. we should not have back room meetings. the reason we have back-door meetings is, again, dwoejts have the courage to debate these on the floor. >> so no one gets the blame. instead everyone gets the blame. >> that's exactly right. >> i want to ask you about speaker boehner. plan b didn't work out. his own party didn't vote for it. i wonder would he be willing to put out a deal that he knows the gop won't back but it will get them to a deal? >> i don't know wha
cliff to deal with this fiscal cliff. again, a total lack of courage, lack of leadership. >> senator corker, does congress realize how ridiculous this looks to the american public, dueling pros conferences. we're minutes away from a fiscal cliff and no one in washington is taking it seriously. >> i think most understand. i think you both know i laid out a very detailed bit. i shared wit the white house, with speaker boehner, with leaders at every level. 've put forth an entitlement...
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cliff. >> one of those people who say let the fiscal cliff happen. >> i can't imagine when it gets down to it that rational people would let it happen. >> one lucky ticket holder may have been captured on tape at the very moment that he realized he hit jackpot. >> he was ecstatic. everybody was checking the see he wasn't seeing things. he wasn't seeing things. it was the right number. >> many people up and down the west coast are keeping a close eye on the triple threat of storms. >> friday is going to be bad. sunday is going to be even worse. >> they don't call them new york's finest for nothing. an officer is famous for buying boots for a homeless man. >> he said, okay, officer, i never had a pair of shoes. >> i know so many cops who have done things like this and it's just not captured. it's nice to see a story like this get out. >> mitt romney has lunch with president obama. it was an awkward moment when the bill came and he only offered to pay 47%. >>> i'm charlie rose with norah o'donnell. gayle king is off. lottery officials in missouri today are going to introduce the holders of
cliff. >> one of those people who say let the fiscal cliff happen. >> i can't imagine when it gets down to it that rational people would let it happen. >> one lucky ticket holder may have been captured on tape at the very moment that he realized he hit jackpot. >> he was ecstatic. everybody was checking the see he wasn't seeing things. he wasn't seeing things. it was the right number. >> many people up and down the west coast are keeping a close eye on the triple...
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can go off a so-called fiscal cliff. i heard a lot of questions what do you mean what if we do nothing? >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. norah o'donnell. president obama speaks out today for the first time since his re-election peak about the fiscal crisis. >> the president is expected to lay out his expectations with his negotiations with congress. nancy cordes is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. typically after a president wins re-election he'll come out and do a big news conference. that is not what this is. president obama will not be taking questions. we hope that that will happen next week but in the meantime i think the white house started to notice that the republican house speaker john boehner had come out to speak about the fiscal cliff on wednesday. he's going to speak about it again today and the white house realized that the president needed to come out and stake his territory, lay the ground work for these negotiations as well. so what he's going to argue today we expect is t
can go off a so-called fiscal cliff. i heard a lot of questions what do you mean what if we do nothing? >> i'm charlie rose with gayle king. norah o'donnell. president obama speaks out today for the first time since his re-election peak about the fiscal crisis. >> the president is expected to lay out his expectations with his negotiations with congress. nancy cordes is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. typically after a president wins re-election...
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crisis here and a fiscal cliff. most of people are saying this is serious and we've got to have serious negotiations and everything has to be on the table. but you seem to be resisting that. what do you think happens if the fiscal cliff happens as a reality and this economy goes over the cliff? >> two things. the fiscal cliff is a tax increase of $500 billion. we had exactly the same scenario two years ago that we had today. obama huffed and puffed and threatened to let us go off the fiscal cliff. at the end of the day, cooler heads prevailed and all of the tax cuts were continued for two years. in 2011 obama said the world would end, we should pass around smelling salt. we got a debt ceiling agreement, we cut spending, didn't raise taxes. we didn't cut taxes as much as the republicans wanted. the ryan plan would have reduced obama's overspending by $6 trillion. we only got $2.5 trillion in restraint. that's a compromise. the republicans have already compromised. >> okay, grover, thank you. we are out of time. we ap
crisis here and a fiscal cliff. most of people are saying this is serious and we've got to have serious negotiations and everything has to be on the table. but you seem to be resisting that. what do you think happens if the fiscal cliff happens as a reality and this economy goes over the cliff? >> two things. the fiscal cliff is a tax increase of $500 billion. we had exactly the same scenario two years ago that we had today. obama huffed and puffed and threatened to let us go off the...
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cliff. >> -- on cbs "this morning." >> nobody likes the fiscal cliff and so much now didn't have much time to talk about it. >> yeah. the sex scandal is all anybody in washington can talk about. i wonder why the country is in financial ruin? >>> welcome to cbs "this morning." i'm charlie rose in new york. norah o'donnell is in washington. so is information cia director david petraeus who is meeting with members of congress this morning. >> margaret brennan is at the capitol where this morning's closed door hearings are being held. >> reporter: good morning to you, norah and there are camera crews at virtually every entrance of the capitol to get a glimpse of dividend petraeus. he returns as a disgraced former head of the cia and in about 30 minutes he'll appear behind those closed doors to answer questions about intelligence failures and the agency's role in that fatal attack on the u.s. mission in benghazi. >> director pept ptraeus went t tripoli and interviewed many of the people involved. so the opportunity to get his views, i think, are very important. >> reporter: david petraeus
cliff. >> -- on cbs "this morning." >> nobody likes the fiscal cliff and so much now didn't have much time to talk about it. >> yeah. the sex scandal is all anybody in washington can talk about. i wonder why the country is in financial ruin? >>> welcome to cbs "this morning." i'm charlie rose in new york. norah o'donnell is in washington. so is information cia director david petraeus who is meeting with members of congress this morning. >>...
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a pew research poll says 33% feel the fiscal cliff is the top issue. that's more than the libyan embassy attack and the petraeus reservation. wall street picked up ground on monday. the dow jones industrial average soared more than 200 points the biggest gain in two months. >>> if the president and congress cannot make a budget deal, tax heights and spending cuts kick in at the start of the year and one of the world's most influential bankers, roy blankfein and ceo of goldman sacks tells scott pelley that washington in this case needs to put politics aside. >> their job is to make the country function not to -- it's not a winning game it's a get-along game. >> washington playing with fire? >> yes. yes, washington is playing with fire and you don't get -- it's not like a football game where you get the two-minute warning. they don't tell you when you have -- you only get one more chance. >> the voters have returned the same politicians to washington that got us in this fiscal mess to begin with. why would you imagine that things would be different now?
a pew research poll says 33% feel the fiscal cliff is the top issue. that's more than the libyan embassy attack and the petraeus reservation. wall street picked up ground on monday. the dow jones industrial average soared more than 200 points the biggest gain in two months. >>> if the president and congress cannot make a budget deal, tax heights and spending cuts kick in at the start of the year and one of the world's most influential bankers, roy blankfein and ceo of goldman sacks...
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no discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. mr. obama left that drama behind and told supporters in suburban detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. >> if congress doesn't act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1st, everybody's going to see their income taxes go up. >> reporter: boehner and house republicans want to preserve all the bush era tax rates due to expire at year's end, shielding everyone from a tax increase. mr. obama wants to raise them for households earning more than $250,000 a year. he has so far resisted gop demands for spending cuts to health care or education. >> i'm not going to have a situation where the wealthiest among us, including folks like me, get to keep all our tax breaks and then we're asking students to pay higher student loans. >> reporter: even so, democrats worry mr. obama might cave to republicans, their biggest fear, the president will do what he considered in 2011, raise the eligibility age for medicare, a top house democrat monday warned the white house to tread light
no discernible progress toward breaking the fiscal cliff stalemate. mr. obama left that drama behind and told supporters in suburban detroit the fiscal cliff is serious business. >> if congress doesn't act soon, meaning in the next few weeks, starting on january 1st, everybody's going to see their income taxes go up. >> reporter: boehner and house republicans want to preserve all the bush era tax rates due to expire at year's end, shielding everyone from a tax increase. mr. obama...
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. >> calls for a solution for the fiscal cliff are being put on the back burner until after christmas. >> i apologize about my voice. this may be divine intervention because we didn't deal with the fiscal cliff. >> a senator from idaho is apologizing for his dui arrest. police stopped republican mike crapo in alexandria, virginia. >> after 80 years in print, "newsweek" magazine has its last issue on stands today. it will continue its digital format. >> if you haven't finished your holiday shopping, don't worry. millions of americans are expected to hit the store today. >> i have just started. >> i looked at the research footage and looked at your face quite a bit. you don't look a day over than you did 32 years ago. >> wide open with the catch. what a shot. seahawks win it, seattle is in the playoffs. >> and all that matters. >> norad will be tracking santa claus as he makes his way around the world delivering gifts to girls and boys tonight. >> on "cbs this morning." >> from kabul, afghanistan, happy holidays! "cbs this "cbs this morning." >>> welcome to "cbs this morning." i'm jeff
. >> calls for a solution for the fiscal cliff are being put on the back burner until after christmas. >> i apologize about my voice. this may be divine intervention because we didn't deal with the fiscal cliff. >> a senator from idaho is apologizing for his dui arrest. police stopped republican mike crapo in alexandria, virginia. >> after 80 years in print, "newsweek" magazine has its last issue on stands today. it will continue its digital format. >> if...
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. >>> companies cutting back on business travel before the potential fiscal cliff, usa today says. one company will spend $20 billion less in the next two years if the fiscal cliff happens. >>> the boston herald reports massachusetts highway safety director is resigning. sheila burgess came under fire because her driving record includes seven accidents, four speeding violations and a ticket for not wearing a seat belt. did we mention she's the highway safety director? this week, the governor said it was a screw up his words, to hire burgess for that job. she cites health reasons for her resignation. >>> and the telegraph says the pope says in his new book that christ was born earlier than commonly thought. he says dennis small made that mistake many years ago and nobody caught it. many believe he was born between 17 bc and 200 bc. >>> good morning, and happy thanksgiving! weather outside looking very nice as we expect high pressure to build in overhead. temperatures warming up very nicely toward the afternoon a little chilly early on today. but the latter part of the day mostly sun
. >>> companies cutting back on business travel before the potential fiscal cliff, usa today says. one company will spend $20 billion less in the next two years if the fiscal cliff happens. >>> the boston herald reports massachusetts highway safety director is resigning. sheila burgess came under fire because her driving record includes seven accidents, four speeding violations and a ticket for not wearing a seat belt. did we mention she's the highway safety director? this...
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. >> president owe pa ma returns to washington today with five days to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> all eyes will be on the senate after house republicans said it's up to senate leadership to reach a deal. >>> starbucks is urging action asking baristas in his washington, d.c., cafes to write the word "come together" on the cups. >> a new york newspaper facing backlash after it published the names and addresses of local gun owners. >>> a busy shanghai shopping center a shark tank exploded. >>> the windy city of chicago will sport america's most expensive parking meters. >> what do you think about that? >> too much. >> all that -- >> smith catches, shoots puts it up, puts it in at the buzzer! j.r. smith with another game winner! >>> what is your favorite app? >> scrabble. >> sometimes i want to yank that out of your hands. >> and all that matters. >> an endangered thin backed whale watched up on the breezy point section of queens. >> on "cbs this morning." >> i know he's smiling but that medal hanging around his neck there's a 40% chance he'll hang himself with it. captioning funded by cb
. >> president owe pa ma returns to washington today with five days to avoid the fiscal cliff. >> all eyes will be on the senate after house republicans said it's up to senate leadership to reach a deal. >>> starbucks is urging action asking baristas in his washington, d.c., cafes to write the word "come together" on the cups. >> a new york newspaper facing backlash after it published the names and addresses of local gun owners. >>> a busy shanghai...
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there are 22 days left to the fiscal cliff deadline. there is no deal yet, but the two leading players are now talking face to face. >> and some republicans m congress are pushing their leaders to be a little bit more flexible. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. the white house meeting yesterday between president obama and speaker boehner occurred after the president extended that invitation to boehner quite quietly on friday. after the meeting, both were described as hopeful. even so, a followup meeting between white house staff and republican congressional staff on underlying details of a fiscal cliff deal apparently achieved little progress. the president met with boehner after huddling friday with house minority leader nancy pelosi and telephoning senate majority leader harry reid. both democrats wanted to make sure president obama will not freeze them out of fiscal cliff negotiations. far from frozen, some set of republicans appear to be warming to higher tax rate
there are 22 days left to the fiscal cliff deadline. there is no deal yet, but the two leading players are now talking face to face. >> and some republicans m congress are pushing their leaders to be a little bit more flexible. major garrett is at the white house. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie and norah. the white house meeting yesterday between president obama and speaker boehner occurred after the president extended that invitation to boehner quite...
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>> this being a -- >> a deal. >> on the fiscal cliff? >> yes. there's some chance we go over the cliff at least for a little while. there's a cool of thought we could get more action if congress does fall off the cliff, so to speak. >> do you agree? >> i don't. i think the consequences for the markets, of going over the live -- the market is already turbulent. we had a tough week. people woke up from the election and said oh, my god it's the fiscal cliff. it's a roller coaster. we will be careening around the tracks if we go around the cliff or go over. >> thank you. >> thousands of people are still struggling without homes or power in the battered northeast. now almost two full weeks after the enormous storm sandy and life isn't easy for many that escaped the worse of sandy's wrath. gasoline is hard to come by. mark strassman is at a gas station here in manhattan with the latest. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning. there's a line of cars that goes back four blocks at this midtown monument gas station, waiting for the chance to fill u
>> this being a -- >> a deal. >> on the fiscal cliff? >> yes. there's some chance we go over the cliff at least for a little while. there's a cool of thought we could get more action if congress does fall off the cliff, so to speak. >> do you agree? >> i don't. i think the consequences for the markets, of going over the live -- the market is already turbulent. we had a tough week. people woke up from the election and said oh, my god it's the fiscal cliff....